Mummy, Luling & Co. v. J. A. Haggerty & Co.

This suit is brought to recover from the defendants the sum of $5,497 50, with interest from March 2d, 1858. There ivas judgment in the District Court in favor of the plaintiffs for the amount claimed, and the defendants appealed.

The only item in dispute is the sum of $4,502 25, it being the cost of a cargo of salt imported in the ship Humber. We will give a brief history of the case as disclosed by the evidence.

It appears that the defendants being dissatisfied with the sale of 9,171 sacks of salt, effected by the plaintiffs, according to a contract of pledge, said salt being held by…